S.A. David Quotes

Do you know how much damage we could do to each other in an hour?

I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesars, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.

We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.

The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room

It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.

None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

People in government are self-interested just like people in business.

I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.

My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996.

I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday.

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to spend more time on it.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

I'd like to do an independent film.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

I hate TiVo, I hate DVRs. I do not get them.

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.

Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.

Who wouldn't want to watch an averagely attractive guy kick a three legged, one eyed dog in the face as it urinates all over itself? The correct answer is no one.

A world's full of broken hearts. That's all this is. I wondered if there was anyone above the age of say, 18, in the world who hadn't had their hearts broken at some point.

Maybe it's not love that unites the world, but rather it's broken hearts.

It’s amazing how a bed feels more like a home than any other part of a house.

It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine.

Why should we ever continue anything if the first parts are the best?

Find one correct answer and let the rest disappear.

I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.